Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce <= 2.9.5 - Authentication Bypass via Shortcode

2025-02-11 00:00
wesley (wcraft)

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.9.6
Affected Version<= 2.9.5
CVSS7.5High
CVECVE-2024-13528
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Vulnerability Overview

The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.5. This is due to the presence of a shortcode that will generate a confirmation link with a placeholder email. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to generate a verification link for any unverified user and log into the account. The 'Fine tune placement' option must be enabled in the plugin settings in order to exploit the vulnerability.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.9.6, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-287 (Improper Authentication) When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

External References

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